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CVE-2016-1281

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer for TrueCrypt 7.2 and 7.1a, VeraCrypt before 1.17-BETA, and possibly other products allows local users to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the "application directory", as demonstrated with the USP10.dll, RichEd20.dll, NTMarta.dll and SRClient.dll DLLs.

Affected products

• IDRIX Truecrypt: 7.1-a, 7.2
• IDRIX VeraCrypt: through 1.16

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/22
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/11/1
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/22
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/11/1

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